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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 04:58:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: More corruption [Re: Problems with ncftp]
To: Frank McIngvale <frankm AT HiWAAY DOT net>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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---Frank McIngvale <frankm AT HiWAAY DOT net> wrote:
>
> 
> Hm, it's apparently not just a problem with ncftp.
> The following also causes file corruption:
> 
> $ bzip2 -9k bigfile
> $ bzip2 -dc bigfile.bz2 | bzip2 -9 > out.bz2
> 
> bigfile     = 21,301,412 bytes
> bigfile.bz2 =  3,338,162 bytes
> out.bz2     =  3,351,827 bytes (!!!)
> 
> $ bzip2 -t out.bz2
> 
>   out.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data
> 
8<

This problem is the pipe and redirection when they are set to text
mode.  If before starting bash you `SET CYGWIN=binmode' this problem
will go away.
==
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